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Once I was asked a very interesting question by a woman who had come to hear me speak. She said to me, “Are you a liberated woman?” I think that’s a good question to consider as we celebrate July 4th tomorrow—the day we declared our freedom as a country. So in answer to this question: Are you a liberated woman?, my answer is a resounding YES! I am a liberated woman, because I’ve been set free by Jesus.
Paul wrote to the Romans: Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ….You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness….But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life (Romans 6:16, 18, 22).
Hallelujah! I’m a liberated woman because I’m free from the curse of sin. That is true freedom; that is the personal freedom that so many are looking for today—but they’re looking in the wrong places. Jesus is the only one who can set us free indeed—that’s why he came.
The Bible says that as individuals we are each slaves—slaves to whatever masters us. What is mastering you today? Money? Possessions? Sex? Laziness? Food? Television? Pornography? Drugs? Alcohol? Work? Well, Jesus Christ offers liberation from anything that makes you into a slave and robs you of freedom.
Most people think freedom is the right to do whatever they want to do. Women over the past years have been led to believe that they’ll find freedom in new opportunities. But it simply doesn’t work. Only when Jesus sets you free do you really know what it means to be free.
I’m glad to say that I’m a liberated woman—free from being a slave to sin.
And because of that, I’m free from guilt. God has forgiven me for every sin that I’ve confessed to him, and furthermore, he has forgotten those sins. He doesn’t hang them over my head ever again; I am no longer condemned. So, even though my past is not what it should be, I don’t live under a cloud of guilt as so many people do. I’m free from guilt. I’m a liberated woman.
If you are looking for freedom, let me introduce you to Jesus Christ, who can set you free indeed.